My back is giving me some serious issues. I awoke this morning to a back spasm, then fell over when I got out of bed because my right leg did not move forward when I tried to walk across the room. Disorienting too, because the room was dark and I was trying to find something to steady myself with, only to fall over a laundry basket. That woke up Patti who I do not think realized what had happened, and was simply annoyed that I had done something early in the morning to wake her up.
Due to the lack of sensation in my leg, and pain in my leg and back, I did not work either at the office or in my gardens. Patti did bring in some tea herbs, namely Pineapple Sage and Chamomile, due to cold and frost which was possible last night, but we did not get. They were calling for 30 degrees, we got down to 35. They are calling for the same tonight but we will have to see what happens. Rumi Banjan, Siberian, and Sasha’s Altai tomatoes are all still going grand here at home.
I have a ton of garlic left to plant. It must get into the ground before the ground freezes hard. I could work my way around the garden on my hands and knees to get it done, but the ground needs to be turned and worked for me to even get the bulbs in. Not sure how that is going to happen. Same issue with the potatoes. I am in no shape to be digging, but what there is, needs to be dug up.
On the upside, I am having hunting dreams. These are much like school dreams, only they tend to be happy ones instead of the kind where you find you are on the bus and naked, trying to cover yourself with notebook paper, or trying to remember your locker combination, or where the damn locker even is. In the hunting dreams they tend more towards paralysis while I watch some giant deer ghost past me in the woods. These are less disturbing, mostly, I suppose, because in the dreams I am not naked.
One of the things I have been able to do is shell corn and dry beans. That I can do while laying in bed. Each type is being separated for seed or eating, and going into individually labeled zip-loc bags. At least something is getting done.
The pepper plants I am trying to over-winter are in the house, but no real good place to put them yet. A 3 year old 6 foot tall Peppadew, three 2 foot tall Lemon Drops, and two 18″ Siberians. The Rosemary already is in it’s place by the breezeway window. Not sure how I am going to work it with the others. The pots are not small. Wish I had more suitable windows and space.
Anyway, we will have to see how it goes. I try to not get discouraged when my body does not cooperate. It is the only one I have and I have to live with it and try to get by within it’s capabilities. Just annoying when it’s capabilities are so limited at times.
